The Value of Including People with Dementia in the Co-Design of Personalized eHealth Technologies.
CONCLUSIONS: The Connected Health Summer School early-stage researchers developed 6 app mock-ups based on their discussions and co-creation activities with the two experts with dementia. The reflections on this experience highlight a number of important issues that demand consideration when undertaking eHealth and mHealth research, co-design, and development with and for people with dementia. The evolution in design research from a user-centered approach to co-designing should pave the way to the development of technologies that neither disempower nor reinforce stigma, but instead provide a reliable support to living a life as active and meaningful as possible after a diagnosis of dementia. To this end, the motto of the peak global organization of people with dementia, Dementia Alliance International, says it all: "See the person and not the dementia."
PMID: 31247622 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord Source Type: research
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